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Post by tcourt5096 on Dec 25, 2010 17:25:30 GMT -5
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Post by shekaberry on Dec 27, 2010 11:46:27 GMT -5
I don't think Dr. Grandin has ever really been one for publicity, but with this being such a controversial topic it isn't surprising that she doesn't want her name associated with the negativity.
Another thing I've never understood is how her methods translate to horse slaughter. I've been to her site and read some of her works and there is nothing anywhere that specifically addresses the safe and humane processing of equines. Just cattle, pigs, sheep, etc. Anyone who has ever met a horse knows their behaviour and reactions are quite different from those of cattle, pigs and sheep.
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Post by Supaloma on Dec 28, 2010 0:05:27 GMT -5
My thoughts exactly. How is her input to this summit valuable other than a well-known name to help them promote the agenda the organizers steadfastly and erroneously promote: 'humane slaughter of horses'. Kudos to Dr. Grandin for her work on making slaughter less stressful for other species. If she's going to promote horse slaughter I'd like her to do some research to make sure it is humane.
As I wrote that I thought of the captive bolt not striking effectively but often randomly. Frightened animals move, operators get tired or inattentive. I doubt there can be large-scale humane slaughter of any species.
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Post by Supaloma on Dec 28, 2010 13:11:18 GMT -5
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Post by shekaberry on Dec 30, 2010 11:44:17 GMT -5
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Post by coconut on Dec 30, 2010 15:58:33 GMT -5
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Post by cricket on Jan 5, 2011 15:38:36 GMT -5
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Post by shekaberry on Jan 5, 2011 16:06:41 GMT -5
That's an interesting angle. The poll results indicate that it's a minority that would even consider eating horse. The only way I could is if I was going to die otherwise. Even then, I don't know if I *really* could.
It's been my experience that the people who would eat it are blissfully unaware of the drugs they could be ingesting and are generally not too concerned with the welfare of the animal (cow, pig, sheep or chicken) prior to and during slaughter. Everyone wants a humane option, but factory processing, due to it's volume driven nature, just can't be it.
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Post by Supaloma on Jan 6, 2011 23:47:50 GMT -5
Dr. Grandin did speak admirably about humane horse slaughter at the summit. The pro slaughter perpetrators said that her ideas are cost prohibitive. So FOS. These people keep preaching about their humane horse slaughter plans and yet they have no intention of improving the current hellish conditions. www.animallawcoalition.com/horse-slaughter/article/1491
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